Nexon signed a domestic and global publishing contract to release a new game called “GODSOM”
NEXON GAMES, an affiliated company of Nexon Co., Ltd announced it signed a domestic and global publishing contract to release a new game called “GODSOM: Clash of Gods(hereinafter called GODSOM).”
GODSOM is a culmination of NEXON GAMES’ know-how for the game development that it has cumulated over time. This is a new but large-scale game based on MMORTS. The company aims to advance into the global markets such as Asia, North America and Europe.
GODSOM is about a turf war where players fight against each other to annex their competitor’s territory. This game is a combination of MMO characteristics that allow players to simultaneously play the game and a simulation which requires strategies. Players should collect and secure a lot of resources enough to develop their territories, thereby emerging as powerful ‘leaders’ in a game. In that way, players can experience entertainment. Plus, in a game are 40 different Gods that players can collect and those gods can be trained to become a hero that would lead players to victory in a war.
This publishing contract helped NEXON acquire the publication right to introduce “GODSOM” to players at home and abroad, and the company is expected to offer players various entertainment that can only be experienced through MMORTS with a strong user base.
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Park Yong-hyun, CEO of Nexon Games, said, "GOTSOME' is a game where NEXON GAMES incorporated their MMO development know-how into the RTS genre." He also added, "It will be an attractive game that requires real-time strategies while providing greater fun with a large-scale battle that conjures up the war of the gods."
Nexon CEO Lee Jung-heon said, "This publishing contract is all the more meaningful because MMORTS genre with NEXON GAMES will be added to the line-up of Nexon’s games. And he also added, "NEXON GAMES will provide unique entertainment and fun to future users around the world with its game-developing expertise and Nexon's publishing capabilities."
Theori revealed “Relic” designed to reinforce the security of blockchain.
Specializing in cybersecurity, Theori will reveal “ Relic Protocol” (herein Relic), a protocol to verify blockchain data, at the global blockchain conference UDC 2022, slated for the 22nd of this month.
Theori attracted investment from Naver D2SF, and globally the company is viewed as the best in its security technology. It is also garnering much attention after attracting KRW 20 billion investment.
Relic, revealed by Theori is able to safely verify data on the blockchain in a mathematically demonstrable manner. Therefore, any blockchain user can generate and prove verifiable data by using Relic, and those data or information is also available at DApp(the decentralized application).
Theori won numerous times at DEFCON, the world’s largest hacking defense competition, and works for major domestic and foreign IT companies such as Naver, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung Electronics. In addition, the company recently contributed a lot to protecting the blockchain market worth more than 4,000 trillion won by actively reviewing blockchain security and reporting vulnerabilities such as Mainnet, DeFi, and NFT.
Park Se-joon, the CEO of Theori, said “Relic was successfully revealed at UDC 2022, and our company will meet individual users as well as affiliated partners who want to make a new product“. And he added, “ we will put our best efforts into expanding the scope of the functions in order to establish a safer and more reliable Web3.0 environment.“
Meanwhile, UDC(Upbit Developer Conference) is a global blockchain conference hosted by DUNAMU, and it will be a two-day event to be held at BPEX in Busan, Korea. During the conference, as part of celebrating the launch of Relic, a certificate of participation in UDC 2022 can be issued in the form of Soulbound Token (SBT) through Ethereum Mainnet at the Theori booth.
Flex-Gyeonggi CCEI-Ainomis, signing MOU... “AI psychoanalysis and digital therapy platform for the elderly are under development”
Flex Co., Ltd, an AI mental care start-up based on emotional data, recently signed a business agreement with the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center, (hereinafter referred to as the Gyeonggi CCEI), and Ai-nomis Co., Ltd, to discover innovative business using AI psychological analyses.
The three companies were selected for the 'non-verbal AI psychoanalysis and digital treatment platform development for the elderly', which falls into bio-health field out of the BIG 3 new industrial fields for the SME Technology Innovation Development Project, and formed a consortium to perform tasks more efficiently, signed an agreement
“The Technology Innovation Development Project for SMEs” is a representative R&D project of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, which supports SMEs to boost their technology level and corporate size through the technology development. It supports eight key tasks in promising fields such as semiconductors and biotechnology.
Through this agreement, the consortium plans to do a lot of cooperative work with each other, such as ▲business discovery using AI psychoanalysis technology and mutual exchange between related technologies ▲platform establishment and technology development for digital therapeutics ▲extension of trial services using the platform.
Flex is a developer of 'KidsDiary', an AI psychological analysis video diary service and character counseling app service for infants and young children. The project will also be expanded to target those suffering from geriatric depression which includes social isolation, fear of loneliness, and suicidal thoughts in the aging society with the elderly population of 10 million where the number has been rapidly increasing in recent years.
The Gyeonggi CCEI is planning a pilot service for residential welfare facilities for the elderly in Gyeonggi-do, and Ai-nomis plans to advance non-verbal psychological analysis and build a digital treatment platform with Gyeonggi CCEI.
Yoon Sun-il, CEO of Flex, said, “We are aiming to verify the effectiveness of digital treatment along with early diagnosis of depression in the elderly who have similar cognitive abilities to infants and have low recovery resilience.” “We will do our best to ensure that a healthy mind is set in everyone in all ages, from infants to adults,” he added.
Kim Si-won, CEO of Ai-nomis, said, "We will utilize our core technology, 'No-code AI (a consulting system that can develop AI based on retained data).' He added, "We plan to focus on developing solutions that enable early diagnosis of depression through analysis of various emotional data of the elderly."
Meanwhile, Flex was selected for the 2021 'KB Unicorn' program of the Gyeonggi CCEI and received professional customized support such as commercialization support and mentoring and moved in to Pangyo Entrepreneurship Zone this year as Gyeonggi CCEI’s incubator start-up.
Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy and Innovation successfully completed the ‘CEO Club-Tech Seminar’ program... “Opening a forum for networking and information exchange between companies”
The Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (hereinafter referred to as the Gyeonggi Innovation Center) announced that it had successfully completed the ‘CEO Club-Tech Seminar’ program at the Pangyo Startup Zone.
‘CEO Club-Tech Seminar’ is part of the Startup Leap Package support project supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Startup Promotion Agency.
Each month, various seminar subjects that can be helpful to start-up companies are organized to provide opportunities for information exchange and networking between companies. Last July and August, the seminars were held on topics related to funds and loans. This month, the seminar was held twice in accordance with the schedule of the ‘2022 Gyeonggi Start-up & Art Festival (GSAF)’ held in the Start-up Zone.
On the 14th, a lecture on the TIPS business and its selection requirements was held under the theme of 'Everything about TIPS', and on the 21st, the audience had time to learn about the 'method and strategy of special technology listing'.
Next month, the seminar will go through secondary battery-related contents in depth over three rounds, and the audience application will start on September 26th (Mon). Since there are no specific field restriction, any startups wishing to participate can apply through the Google form.
An official from the Gyeonggi CCEI said, “We hope that companies in the Gyeonggi CCEI and Startup Zone will grasp the trend of the 4th industry and the key information for each sector through the CEO Club-Tech Seminar.” He added, “We expect to gain business insights through networking opportunities between companies.”
Meanwhile, the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center provides specialized support such as commercialization support and mentoring so that the center can discover promising startups and systematically nurture them. In particular, the Startup Zone is the largest startup support cluster in Korea established by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and jointly operated by the Startup Promotion Agency and the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center.
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Neopin and Lillius Signed a Global Strategic Investment and Partnership... “Establishing a collaborative system for production and distribution of virtual asset!”
Neopin announced that it made a strategic investment in Lillius Pte., Ltd., a sports content platform company based on motion analysis technology, and signed a service business alliance agreement with the company’s 'Lilli T2E' and '300ft'.
Through this investment and business agreement, the two companies will establish an active collaboration system for the production and distribution of sports virtual assets such as NFTs. They plan to strengthen the cooperation based on the resources between the two companies, such as Neopin's blockchain technology infrastructure and know-how, and Lillius' motion analysis technology and sports infrastructure. In the future, DeFi products such as staking for ‘Lily Token’ on the Neopin platform will be added, and they will cooperate to expand the mutual business network for business promotion.
Spring Cloud-Manna CEA Signed MOU... “Developing integrated service business of autonomous driving mobility and smart farm solution for agriculture and fishery!”
Spring Cloud Inc. announced on the 23rd that it has signed an MOU with Manna CEA, a company specializing in ICT smart farms, to agree to joint R&D and service business for smart agriculture and fishery solutions using autonomous driving mobility technology. .
As a company specializing in autonomous driving mobility solutions, Spring Cloud provides autonomous driving mobility services and data analysis services based on artificial intelligence. It has been promoting the expansion of self-driving shuttle services such as autonomous driving data centers, smart garages, and on-demand services in Seoul, Daegu, Gunsan and at Seoul National University of Science and Technology.
Manna CE is a company that develops and distributes greenhouse control systems and hydroponics systems that can be applied to various environments, and the company has already supplied its smart farm equipment not only to domestic market but also Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.
By signing the MOU, the two companies agreed to develop an autonomous driving mobility convergence service applicable to smart agriculture and fishery solutions, and to promote necessary technical cooperation and joint research and development. First, at the Multiverse Planet Yeosu, operated by Spring Cloud, there will be the in-store type ‘Smart Farm’ service and expand its business to smart agriculture and fishery services combined with autonomous driving mobility technology.
Gyeonggi CCEI Held ‘The 7th Startup 815’ at the Pangyo Star-tup Zone... “Operating customized tracks for each stage of investment attraction!”
The Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy Innovation (hereinafter referred to as the Gyeonggi CCEI), the operating organization of the Pangyo Start-up Zone, announced that it successfully held ‘the 7th Startup 815’ at the Startup Zone on the 22nd.
‘Startup 815’ is a monthly investment attraction program conducted by the Gyeonggi CCEI in collaboration with the Gyeonggi Provincial Small and Medium Business Administration, Gachon University, and Suwon University. The program is planning to discover excellent start-ups in Gyeonggi-do every month and provide opportunities for corporate promotion and investment attraction to the companies.
The event consisted of a total of three tracks: a global track for the companies that wish to advance into the global market and attract investment, a scale-up track for the startups less than 7 years old, and a jump-up track for startups less than 3 years old. The companies selected for each track were promising companies in Gyeonggi-do and had IR pitching session and networking session to attract investment.
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom